What is Miklos hacking - Tags: mutt

I created a toy project to experiment with a few technologies I wanted to try
out (cmake,
googletest,
xmlsec outside LibreOffice,
libzip, AppVeyor). The result
is a tool with a similar interface as pdfsig from poppler (for PDF files),
just for ODF: a cmdline executable to verify the digital signature(s) in an
ODF document.

The source code now has CI on Linux and
Windows, so perhaps in a shape that is interesting for others to have a look
as well. And if not, then no problem, it was interesting to put together these
building blocks and see them working as expected. :-)

I used to have a hackish setup to trigger address book in the form of code
completion from vim, when mutt starts it. I recently migrated the last part of
it from python2, so it’s now in a relatively consistent state. On a boring
flight trip I finally got around to summarize how it works, perhaps it’s
useful to someone else as well. :-)

By multiple sources, I mean Google Contacts for my private account, and LDAP
for work-related accounts. I have one script for each to have a local backup:

Then comes
mutt/contacts/search,
which can read these backups from $HOME/.mutt/contacts/ (you can create
symlinks to decide which backup should be included in the search results).

The rest is just a short
search.vim
that integrates the search script into vim, so when mutt starts it with
ft=mail, the search script is invoked when you start typing and you press
Ctrl-X Ctrl-O (trigger code completion).

And that’s it, I can start typing mails to friends and customers even without
network connectivity, without manually maintaining an own address book just
for mutt!